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I grew up just a few miles outside of Harrisburg, so I found this latest feature from ReasonTV examining Harrisburg's fiscal morass fascinating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shI5oOTMkMkAs ReasonTV asks at the end of the video [...]

Last week, Congress passed legislation that requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to draw up plans by 2015 to allow for commercial drones in national airspace. This, along with the integration of returning military drones into [...]

Support for Acta in Europe is waning as both Bulgaria and the Netherlands refuse to ratify the international anti-piracy agreement." - Reuters in The Guardian. See full article immediately below.Individual LibertySOPA/PIPA:The Guardian [...]

Congratulations to Indiana becoming the 23rd Right to Work state! This is a big win for worker freedom in the Hoosier state.This afternoon, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed right to work into law making Indiana the first "rust [...]

A bipartisan group of senators, meanwhile, is introducing a resolution that rules out a strategy of containment for Iran and holding a press conference Thursday afternoon. Some Democrats have been reluctant to sign onto the effort because they [...]

... from the Amish menace. If you haven't yet heard the news, it's official, the FDA won its case against Dan Allgyer, an Amish farmer whose unspeakable crime -- selling raw milk -- has now forced him to shut down his [...]

The greatest threat to the health-care overhaul might not be the Supreme Court, which is scheduled to hear challenges to the law next month. Or the shifting alliances of an election year. In the end, it’s more likely to be a lack of medical [...]

The internet community - if there is such a thing - has risen up in anger over recent weeks. The main cause of its concerns have been perceived attempts to curtail online freedom by governments and corporations. So what makes the internet angry - [...]

Virginia, Tennessee, and Washington State are the first States to fire back at the federal government ( The Obama Administration for signing and the Congress for passing) for the National Defense Authorization Act's (NDAA) detention [...]